Cannabis for Cancer with Dr. Donald Abrams of UCSF

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Dr. Donald Abrams is back on Cure Panel and we are discussing 'Cannabis for Cancer' Dr. Donald I. Abrams is a cancer and integrative medicine specialist at the UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at Mount Zion. Abrams provides integrative medicine consultations for cancer patients and has completed research in complementary and alternative therapies including mind-body treatments, botanical therapies, medical use of marijuana and traditional Chinese medicine herbal therapies. In addition to his role at the Osher center, he is chief of Hematology and Oncology at San Francisco General Hospital. Abrams, who has been in the forefront of HIV/AIDS research and treatment, stepped down from the HIV Clinic at San Francisco General Hospital in August 2006 to devote more time to integrative medicine and oncology. He is an executive committee member of the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center and is co-chair of of the center's program in Symptom Management, Palliative Care and Survivorship. In 2004, he completed an associate fellowship in integrative medicine at the University of Arizona. Panelists : Pat Killingsworth, Smriti Parikh, Alex Niles, Jim Wickstrom Register here: http://curepanel.carefeed.net/event/rsvp/22/ (or) Mail: [e-mail]